Cape filmmakers’ series to air on PBS in RI

Two Cape Cod-based video series on travel and history will be shown on Rhode Island PBS stations starting on Saturday (March 29).

Emmy Award-nominated documentary-short series “Through My Eyes” and “Hit and Run History,” both grassroots productions of the Cape Cod Community Media Center, will regularly air on Saturday nights (“Through My Eyes” at 8:50 p.m.; “Hit and Run History” at 9:50 p.m.) then also at random times, between other PBS programming.

Both shows are designed to bring global adventure to underserved audiences. “Through My Eyes” follows two elementary schoolers, Ava and Sofie, on their travels. Their first series was set in China; the new episodes, which will be shown on the PBS stations, were filmed in South America.

Specifically designed for classroom use, the series has received six Massachusetts Cultural Council Grants, director Jen Sexton notes in a press release. “To the City of Fair Winds,” the first new episode that will air Saturday, follows the girls to Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Ava is Sexton’s daughter; Sofie is the daughter of Andrew Giles Buckley, creator and host of “Hit and Run History.”)

The “Gumshoe Historians” of “Hit and Run History” have been following the story of the first American voyage around the world, which has taken them all over the Northeast and to Cape Verde. Emmy-nominated “7,377 Miles from Home” will open the new series on Rhode Island PBS. In the episode, footage from two days of travel accompanies an interview with Samantha Addison of the Falklands Islands Radio Service, and tracks from Cape Cod to New York, Chile and cross-country on East Falkland.

Under 10 minutes in length, the episodes – which Buckley, in a press release, refers to as a “short-form serialization” that is “snackable history” – works well for PBS to program between shows.

“We’re happy to share these two new series with Rhode Island PBS audiences,” said
Kathryn Larsen, director of Programming at WSBE Rhode Island PBS, in the release. “In addition to scheduling the episodes at various times on both Rhode Island PBS and Learn, we are we are reserving a regular time slot for each series to make it easy for audiences to find and follow them.”

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